The faithfulness of atomic polymorphism

It is known that the full intuitionistic propositional calculus can be embedded into the atomic polymorphic system Fat, a calculus with only two connectives: the conditional and the second-order universal quantifier. The embedding uses a translation of formulas due to Prawitz and relies on the so-ca...

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Main Author: Ferreira, Fernando (author)
Other Authors: Ferreira, Gilda (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/10489
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorioaberto.uab.pt:10400.2/10489
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Summary:It is known that the full intuitionistic propositional calculus can be embedded into the atomic polymorphic system Fat, a calculus with only two connectives: the conditional and the second-order universal quantifier. The embedding uses a translation of formulas due to Prawitz and relies on the so-called property of instantiation overflow. In this paper, we show that the previous embedding is faithful i.e., if a translated formula is derivable in Fat, then the original formula is already derivable in the propositional calculus.